Feast of the Holy Innocents

Yesterday, December 28th was the feast of the holy innocents. A day that is set apart to remember the slaughter of the innocents in the Gospel of Matthew.

Matthew 2:16-18:

When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. Get up, he said, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him. So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: Out of Egypt I called my son.^[4] When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: "A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

The slaughter of the innocents continues today all of over the world. In the time of Jesus, The Empire of Rome sent out paramilitary death squads to kill all the children in search of the baby Jesus, the nonviolent Christ. Today in Colombia, The empire of the United States sends, trains, and pays for paramilitary death squads\to kill the Colombian leaders of Human Rights organizations, nonviolently resisting multinational takeover. A voice is heard in colombia, weeping and great mourning, Women weeping for their children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.